•Aerial view of the cruise ship MV Hondius stationary off the port of Praia, capital of Cape Verde A French woman and an American national evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive, officials said today, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continued. The French woman, […]
The French embassy, in collaboration with the High Commission of Canada in Nigeria, in commemoration of the 16 days of Activism on gender based violence, has strongly condemned the rising issue of digital hostility directed towards women. This collaborative initiative aims to address the various forms of online harassment and discrimination th...
•Passengers carry their luggage at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport today as French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike today to protest at understaffing and “toxic management”, disrupting travel for tens of thousands of people in Europe at the start of a busy summer holida...
•General Abdourahamane Tiani (2nd L), the head of the military regime in Niger Niger military government has officially made Hausa the country’s new national language, moving away from its colonial past where French played a central role. The change was announced in a new charter released on March 31, published in a special edition of [&hellip...
•Shipping containers are stacked high at the Port of Long Beach Washington has lowered planned tariffs on two French overseas territories initially listed as facing swinging import levies earlier this week. In a list of countries and territories published Wednesday, the Trump White House said it would slap duties of 37 percent on imports from ...
•The mass rape victim, Gisele Pelicot arrives with her lawyers at the courthouse in Avignon yesterday France’s trial of a man who drugged his now ex-wife so he and dozens of strangers could rape her while unconscious ended yesterday with all 51 defendants being convicted. Dominique Pelicot, 72, who admitted sedating his then-wife with sleepin...
•Gabriel Attal France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would offer his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron today after his party failed to win a majority in parliamentary elections. But he added that, if his resignation is refused, he was ready to remain in office “as long as duty demands”, with the Paris Olympics due […]...
•Ibrahim Some eminent northern leaders have kicked against the establishment of French and American military bases in Nigeria following their forced exit from neighbouring Francophone West African neighbours Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso. One of the leaders, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, warned that Nigeria would be “setting itself up for battl...
•President Emmanuel Macron The administration of French President Emmanuel Macron published the formal text of a new immigration law in its Official Journal today, with the first instructions on applying the legislation already presented to officials. The law’s promulgation comes after France’s Constitutional Council censured 35 of its 86 arti...
•PSG players celebrate with the trophy Lee Kang-in and Kylian Mbappe scored first-half goals as Paris Saint-Germain won the first silverware of the French season yesterday, beating Toulouse 2-0 to claim the Champions Trophy. Lee, playing his final game before heading off to the Asian Cup in Qatar with South Korea, put PSG ahead in […]

